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re: Smack Epidemic: How Pain Killers are turning youth athletes into heroin addicts
Posted on 6/21/15 at 2:02 pm to Bench McElroy
Posted on 6/21/15 at 2:02 pm to Bench McElroy
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Posted on 6/21/15 at 2:21 pm to Thurber
If more people smoked pot instead of drinking and abusing pharmaceutical drugs the nation would be much healthier. The side effects from most of those drugs are worse than the condition they are trying to treat. Cannabis is a holistic anti-inflammatory. Pot and aspirin are about all you need 80% of the time.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 2:27 pm to TheCaterpillar
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Wealthy white kids at party schools. It was as easy to get a bottle of opiates as it was to get pot in college.
Mainly Ole Miss, Alabama, and Georgia.
They're not all close friends, just acquaintances. I have buried 1 close friend and a couple other acqaintances have passed. Usually it starts with xanax/benzos in my experience, moves to tabs/percs, then oxy in some form (hard to get now), then H.
My exact experience as well. rich white people with too much time and money. Try a few hydrocondone in high school and figure OC isn't any different. Start pop OC and Xaxnax all the time and turn into zombies. I have been robbed by friends that come from way wealthier families so they could get an $80 oc .
I am not sure how it is now but Florida and the shite doctors that were giving pills out were the problem.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 2:47 pm to Dire Wolf
From what I've seen here in New England, kids are getting hooked on prescription opiates and when they can no longer afford that, they shift to heroin. Opiate addiction and opiate dealing have become such a huge deal here in our state that anytime I prescribe an opiate, I have to check in to the state board of health website, log the Rx, and verify from the database that the pt isn't getting opiates from another provider. It's a huge pain in the arse, especially given what I do, but we're forced to do it or risk losing your medical license
Posted on 6/21/15 at 4:01 pm to SoFunnyItsNot
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Only 22 and already buried two friends two painkiller overdoses. Ridiculous how someone can go from a very well off family with no problems to dead within a couple years because of just trying the heavy pk once
Drugs don't give a damn about your socioeconomic status. Addicts are addicts.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 4:06 pm to Bench McElroy
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Heroin use cuts across demographics. Young, old. Male, female. Wealthy, indigent. Urban, rural and, most of all, suburban.
Pretty much just confirms that heroin is awesome.
Except for the health setbacks.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 4:16 pm to Sellecks Moustache
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Pretty much just confirms that heroin is awesome.
And the dying thing. I've always said that if I ever get a terminal illness, I am going to take up heroin. Probably not a bad way to go out on an acute basis.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 4:47 pm to genuineLSUtiger
frick it, if you're terminal you deserve to go out in whatever way you want to.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 6:18 pm to Superior Pariah
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by Superior Pariah
Subtle brag
Wtf are you talking about? I'm bragging I know drug addicts and have lost friends?
I said nothing about myself.
This is not a subject I take lightly. It's a shame this addiction issue is so prevalent and it affects so many people across so many demos.
This post was edited on 6/21/15 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 6/21/15 at 6:21 pm to Goldrush25
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Drugs don't give a damn about your socioeconomic status. Addicts are addicts
truth....
about to celebrate my 2 year anniversary of sobriety.... after 10 years of using... and it started with a legit script....
Posted on 6/21/15 at 6:23 pm to Bench McElroy
This was from a post on r/confession titled "Heroin Is The Only Thing I'll Ever Love." Sorry, it's long. TL/DR: drugs are bad.
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I've been hooked on opiates for five years, using intravenous heroin for four glorious years of those five. Right now I'm in school pursuing my Bachelor's degree and I'm on Methadone Maintenance, abstinent from my one true love and hating every second of it.
I'm simply going through the motions to keep up appearances and to ease my poor, sweet family's concern. If I didn't feel so terrible for putting my ultra supportive parents through hell (seriously, WTF did they do to deserve me!?) and squandering all my talent and potential, I would've given up and taken to the streets of the Tenderloin the second I learned what it felt like to have diacetylmorphine (AKA liquid bliss) flood through my veins. In many respects, I'm on my way to doing just that.
I pretend to care about other shite (school, friends, exercise, writing, reading...) but the truth is all of that, all of those things for which I once had deep passion, have now become trivial and hollow to me. Heroin gifted me four straight years of peace. During that time I never put the needle down and it never even got a little bit stale. If I didn't need to maintain this facade I wouldn't even bother with the pretense that I'm through with it.
As it stands, I refer to heroin as "poisonous" and "a waste" LOL. I even attend fricking NA meetings, which can be quite amusing when I'm blanketed in an (admittedly weak) Methadone buzz, listening to yet another housewife cry about how her 10 Norco/day habit has destroyed her life. I spout the party line with the best of them because I know my obsession with this drug and my resistance to treatment is fricking SICK and INSANE. It defies all logic. To admit face-to-face to a single soul, that after all the destruction this habit has wreaked upon my life I still desperately yearn for it as one would yearn for a lost lover... well, that would reveal a depth to my lunacy to which I am wholly unprepared to confess.
I dream about it, I miss it, I'm even frequently suicidal simply because my life can't revolve around it in the way I want it to. I no longer give a frick about getting my degree (though I'm currently maintaining a 3.9 gpa, go fricking figure!) I no longer care about interpersonal relationships (romantic or otherwise, aside from what small vestiges of love I still harbor for my parents.) The ideas of marriage, having children, building a careeer... frickING NONE OF IT appeals to me on ANY LEVEL. My life's dreams now revolve around my recurring fantasies of robbing a pharmacy, or getting in good with a crooked doctor who's loose with the script pad, or my personal favorite, living completely alone on a deserted island with an unlimited supply of dope and syringes, shooting up all day as I watch the waves crash against the beach. That is literally what I think about each night before I fall asleep. That's my idea of heaven.
I am 23 years old and I have lost all passion for everything unrelated to opiates. I do not regret it because I'm no longer capable of feeling remorse, though I am aware on a logical level of the pointlessness and futility of such a life. The problem is no other path seems to offer a more meaningful alternative. While my parents are alive I will do my best to appear functional and happy, but once they leave me I will set my plan for a slow suicide into motion. I will take a Greyhound to San Fran, start hooking in the Tenderloin, and hopefully die sooner rather than later doing the only thing I really love on this earth: shooting dope. Thanks for reading, Reddit. shite's bleak, I know.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 7:09 pm to CaptSpaulding
Opiates are scary. You hear addicts talk about how much they hate the drugs they took and how they made them felt. They talk about the highs/lows. People who were addicted to opiates just say they love it and that they'd basically still be doing it in a perfect world.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 9:45 pm to Bench McElroy
good high school friend of mine's funeral is tomorrow. Heroin OD last week.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 9:52 pm to Sofa King Crimson
yeah, this is a major problem in this country. It starts with the painkillers, then it's on to H. I've known tons of people that got hooked on it. Some were able to beat the addiction (for now, at least) and some have lost their lives to it. Very sad.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 9:57 pm to RLDSC FAN
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yeah, this is a major problem in this country
It truly is. I've had one good friend and another friends younger brother both die within the last year from heroin overdoses. I also have close ties to a treatment center and the vast majority of young white kids are in there for heroin addiction. It's killing people of all demographics.
I'm so glad that that devil of a drug wasn't around when in was in my younger days experimenting with drugs.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 9:59 pm to supadave3
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I'm so glad that that devil of a drug wasn't around when in was in my younger days experimenting with drugs.
I feel you, I never once saw Heroin growing up. Now, unfortunately, it's everywhere in my home town. The sad part is it's not even our biggest problem, that would be meth.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 10:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
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I never once saw Heroin growing up
Same here. I never saw it and couldn't of found it if I wanted to and I had plenty of experience with drugs.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 11:32 pm to supadave3
Horse has always been around, it fell out of popularity for awhile but then the pharmaceutical companies started playing with opiates and doctors began giving them out like candy for the most minor things creating a bunch of addicts. I've been clean and sober for 5 years (not opiates) and I hear the stories from people I carry the message to and it is the same thing, doctor gave me oxy for minor pain and it grew from there.
Posted on 6/21/15 at 11:41 pm to CoastTrashTiger
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And yes very sad, right now I see bars/stix whatever you want to call them as the biggest problem in terms of drugs. Relatively inexpensive but very bad when mixed with alcohol.
zanny poppers?
Posted on 6/22/15 at 12:15 am to SystemsGo
Painkillers/heroin are definitely a bigger problem than Xanax.
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